Industry Insights
| FDA Mandates Opioid Label Changes | 09/18/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Sept. 10 that it will require fairly significant changes to the labeling of all extended-release and long-acting opioid analgesics. First, the good ne...Read More | |||
| Final Exam Test Question from Adjunct WC Law Professors | 06/14/2013 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Three cleaning people live in the same house in North Prospect, Ill. They are dressed and ready and going to work. They are not on the clock nor are they being paid to go to work. The hours spent traveling to and from work do not count toward Family Medical Leave Act, unemployment, seniority or anyt...Read More | |||
| Freedom of Religion = Freedom from Workers' Comp? | 05/07/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When Jakob Hutter founded the Hutterian Brethren Church in the 1530s, he was not worried about workers' comp (which would not exist for another 350 years). He just wanted the freedom to practice his communal religion in what is now Germany/Austria. He incurred the wrath of Ferdinand I, who, in t...Read More | |||
| Freud v. Workers' Comp | 04/29/2013 | ||
| By: Red Hollingsworth | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Should there be psychological consulting at the four-to-six-week period after a work comp claim? HECK YEAH! Not having a psych evaluation after a serious injury is a mistake. This can determine what mental factors are related to the illness or injury, or what is preventing the worker from returning ...Read More | |||
| Frightening Development in Cumulative Trauma Cases | 04/02/2013 | ||
| By: Matt Dye | |||
| State: AL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Cumulative trauma cases involve workers who, over a period of time, develop physical medical conditions related to work. In other words, the employees do not undergo a specific event to cause their medical conditions, but develop them over time.Due to the danger of abuse by workers claim...Read More | |||
| FDA Must Have New Authorities to Regulate Pharmacy Compounding | 03/28/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Margaret Hamburg | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis associated with a compounded medication was a horrible tragedy, and I’ve asked myself many times if and how it could have been prevented. I speak for everyone at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when I say that our hearts go out to the many victims...Read More | |||
| Fatal Falls among Older Workers | 02/05/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When Cassandra warned the Trojans about a peculiar looking horse, she was ignored. In a somewhat similar vein, the Insider has predicted potentially dire consequences of an aging workforce: unable to retire, some older workers labor to the breaking point and then might hope to parlay workers' co...Read More | |||
| Fla. Medical Assn.: Predictable, but Still Disappointing | 01/04/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Florida Medical Association (FMA) has decided, according to Florida State Senator Alan Hays, to oppose forthcoming legislation intended to remove the economic incentive for p...Read More | |||
| Fee Schedules: The Savings Do Not Stop There | 09/06/2012 | ||
| By: James J. Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance had lowered the loss costs or advisory rates for Illinois and Tennessee. The reductions were due to both states enacting fee schedules a few years ago. This will save employers in both states millions in workers' comp costs.As I said in ...Read More | |||
| Finally Trending Down | 07/18/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Has opioid prescribing in California's workers' comp system started to tail off?Perhaps. At least that's the trend noted by the California Workers Compensation Institute in a July 9 study, "Changes in Schedule II and III Opioid Prescriptions and Payments in California Workers...Read More | |||
